Looking forward to the (short) series Doomsday Preppers coming up on National Geographic. They had a standalone episode last year, with one guy repeating the same long phrase about coronal ejections over and over – but he and his wife did build a tilapia tank out of their pool and used that waste to fertilize . . . → Read More: Random things
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Sometimes I wonder about these things, especially when we get an egg that is huge compared to normal eggs. The five normal eggs weigh about 2 3/8 ounces each. The whopper weighs in at 3 5/8 ounces. We’ve gotten several double yolkers since we’ve had chickens, and this one will likely be another – or . . . → Read More: Did that hurt? Bottling day at the ranch for the German style lager we brewed. Started on Monday, completed Saturday night. Not too bad, as far as hobbies go, and much of the week was spent waiting – as is the case for most things around here, like waiting for dough to rise, or seeds to germinate, or . . . → Read More: Fifty bottles of beer on the wall Ever wonder about that phrase? Wonder no more. Bottling bucket, spigot, siphons, bottles, and caps, all washed and ready to be sanitized Saturday. Also known as: bottling day. Before bottling, though, there are a number of other things that have to be done, primarily outside. Unlike our neighbors to the north, it’s going to . . . → Read More: Chief bottle washer Almost. As I mentioned the other day, I started a batch of beer. It took a few hours for the yeasties to get their gobble on, but when they did, the airlock was bubbling away. All the crap around the neck is where the foam went pretty high in the carboy. It settled into . . . → Read More: Bier! It’s been a grey, dreary day here. If we lived anywhere else, it would be a wintry day, or what we used to call a snow day when we lived up north. Except here in the south, it was mostly just rainy for a good portion of the day and overcast when the rain moved . . . → Read More: Late summer harvest First you clean. Then you put together your ingredients, get the mix into the carboy, pitch your yeast, put the airlock on, and wait for it to ferment. It didn’t do much, at first. I was hanging out, checking on it now and again, to see if it would start bubbling away, but . . . → Read More: Wort’s that? What to do when you’re in the mood for sushi, but not in the mood to go out to eat it – especially if you’re me, and can really only comfortably eat one roll at a time these days (thanks, 9 month liquid diet!)? Make it yourself, of course.
A little (fake) . . . → Read More: Hungry? DIY Sometimes, it seems like days just start off badly, as if the world wants to crack an eye at the sunrise, yawn, and roll over for a bit more sleep. This morning was one of those mornings. The plan was to get up in the wee hours, get the smoker going, and have some pulled . . . → Read More: Some days |
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